Question: Exploration of the life experiences and beliefs of a married couple in their sixties using qualitative thematic analysis of two interviews given by them. Focusing on their views about their identities and factors in their identity formation.

Answer: This study used a semi structured interview on a married couple in their sixties in order to elicit information on the concept...

Question: What are the risk factors that lead some children to become bullies and others to adopt bullying strategies; evaluate school, classroom and individual interventions?
Discuss with reference to relevant research evidence.

Answer: There is evidence to support that children show ‘risk factors’ that can predispose bullying or victim behaviour. The stereotypical bully and portrayed...

Question: Show how behaviourist concepts of learning processes can be used to explain how children learn to talk and think. Critically evaluate these explanations using aspects of cognitive and language development as examples.

Answer: This essay will explore the behaviourist approaches to both language and cognitive development, at the same time critically evaluating it in terms...

Question: Critically assess the contribution of the behaviourist, psychoanalytic, family systems and cognitive models to the understanding of developmental processes (with a focus on attachment, initiative, and control) which are involved in major depression and anorexia nervosa.

Answer: Developmental psychopathology is an integrative approach combining a number of theoretical perspectives and thus tapping the empirically validated contributions of different schools...